Note: If you are asked for a Barcode or ID for any ICONN or Catalog or E-Books, and you are in School, wait a minute to see if it loads on it's own once it recognized the Vernon Public School Network, if you are logging in from OUTSIDE of RHS you will need to enter the Barcode on the back of your PUBLIC LIBRARY CARD.
TRY SOME OF THESE SEARCH TOOLS that are available on the WWW:
SWEET SEARCH: http://www.sweetsearch.com/(designed for schools and students...interesting links to research adn why not to
SORT FIX: http://www.sortfix.com/ (Gives visual boxes to help you sort your search by terms, etc.)
GOOFRAM: www.goofram.com (a combination of Google search combines with WOLFRAM)
MASHPEDIA: http://mashpedia.com/ ("Mashpedia is a web encyclopedia featuring real-time data and rich media content from a wide breadth of sources including the social web.")
Or useful IMAGE or Photograph Sites such as: http://nachofoto.com/ NachoFoto is a real time picture search
engine that can help you find the most up-to-date images of anything that is happening around the world.
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS:Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center NOV, 2008 Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
__ http://find.galegroup.com/ovrc/start.do?prodId=OVRC&userGroupName=s1461
(You DID know that November was National Novel Writing Month, right?—get it … NaNoWriMo?) RESEARCH LINKS: (Provided by CT State Library, CT State Dept. of Ed. & some purchased by RHS Library for our students and staff)
Rockville High School Library Wikispaces Home ORIGINAL =>NEWER PAGE
Note: If you are asked for a Barcode or ID for any ICONN or Catalog or E-Books, and you are in School, wait a minute to see if it loads on it's own once it recognized the Vernon Public School Network, if you are logging in from OUTSIDE of RHS you will need to enter the Barcode on the back of your PUBLIC LIBRARY CARD.
TRY SOME OF THESE SEARCH TOOLS that are available on the WWW:
SWEET SEARCH: http://www.sweetsearch.com/ (designed for schools and students...interesting links to research adn why not to
SORT FIX: http://www.sortfix.com/ (Gives visual boxes to help you sort your search by terms, etc.)
GOOFRAM: www.goofram.com (a combination of Google search combines with WOLFRAM)
MASHPEDIA: http://mashpedia.com/ ("Mashpedia is a web encyclopedia featuring real-time data and rich media content from a wide breadth of sources including the social web.")
Or useful IMAGE or Photograph Sites such as:
http://nachofoto.com/ NachoFoto is a real time picture search
engine that can help you find the most up-to-date images of anything that is happening around the world.
OTHER INTERESTING SITES OF NOTE:
Opposing Viewpoints
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS:Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center NOV, 2008 Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
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http://find.galegroup.com/ovrc/start.do?prodId=OVRC&userGroupName=s1461
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POWER SEARCH: [[ http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?userGroupName=s1461&authCount=1&u=s1461]]
http://www.itgetsbetter.org/ For more on the President's Anti-bullying Campaign... "It Gets Better" Campaign... growing in support
WEBSITE OF INTEREST offered in West Virginia:
http://wvde.state.wv.us/learn21/grades912/
and
http://ikeepsafe.blogspot.com/
And older sites of the day:
(You DID know that November was National Novel Writing Month, right?—get it … NaNoWriMo?)
RESEARCH LINKS: (Provided by CT State Library, CT State Dept. of Ed. & some purchased by RHS Library for our students and staff)